Why The Clocked Was Stopped During Cena-Orton Iron Man Match

Source: PWInsider.com

- During last night’s iron man match, John Cena was busted open after being hit by a microphone - this was not apparently a planned spot.

Vince McMahon ordered Cena to be cleaned up immediately after seeing the spot, and WWE’s John Laurinaitis along with trainers rushed to ringside to clean him up. With their first attempt, Cena wasn’t aware what they intended to do so played babyface and mounted offence against Randy Orton. The cut was finally glued shoot and cleaned up after the next fall.

Cena and Orton were scheduled to work among the crowd and WWE wanted to ensure there was no health issue with a bloody wrestler among fans. If it were to have happened, the issue would have been taken seriously by the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission and likely used as more ammuniton against Linda McMahon’s senate campaign.

As the blood was unplanned, WWE decided to stop the clock during the bout as it wasn’t known how long the clean up operation on Cena would take.

*crickets*

wait there are health issues with blood now?
wait. ah thats fake blood they dont have issues with.
WWE PG at its best

It's not the rating. The Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission would hit them hard if Cena would've been dripping blood on people.

Like it or not, the PG rating everyone is bitching about is doing more good then harm for the wrestlers. Everyone calls it boring, but it's better then having a bunch of people land on their heads doing stunts without reason.

yeah just incase anyone got confused. I did understand that it was because real blood could cause health issues

IK u were being sarcastic, LL.

I agree with you, Sarcy. Because of the planned fight in the crowd, they couldn't have a bloodied wrestler going in the stands.

yeah i agree too lol

sarcy wrote:

Like it or not, the PG rating everyone is bitching about is doing more good then harm for the wrestlers. Everyone calls it boring, but it's better then having a bunch of people land on their heads doing stunts without reason.

When did they ever really do that in the Attitude Era? Or the Postwar Era, honestly?

This just makes wwe look more stupid.

^^Called a piledriver